Nozzle-header for bottle-washing machines



W. W. BIRNSTOCK.

NOZZLE HEADER FOR BOTTLE WA SHING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED SEFT- 25,1919.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920;

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APPHCATION'FILED SEPT-.25, 1919.

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WILLIAM W. BIRNfiTOCK, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HEN CH & DROMGOLD COMPANY, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

N OZZLE-HEADER FOR BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

Application filed September 25, 1919. Serial No. 326,269.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, l/VILLIAM WV. Brim- STOCK, of the city and county of York, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Nozzle- Headers for Bottle-WVashing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of bottle washing machines in which crates containing the bottles to be cleansed, rinsed and sterilized are fed along, in inverted position, over a series of tanks, halting for a stated period over each tank to subjectthe bottles contained in the crates to the action of the liquid appropriate to this tank, there being associated with each tank, a header carrying the. nozzles from which the cleansing fluid is ejected, the bottles contained in each crate being properly centered relatively to the header nozzles to receive in their open mouths the jets from the nozzles in the header below. The open bottom crates, which are of a standard size, are divided internally by skeleton partition structures or grids into cells for the individual bottles contained in the crates, which cells will vary in size and number according to the size of the bottles-as for example if in tended to hold quart bottles, the crate will have twelve cells arranged in rows of three crosswise and four lengthwise of the crate, while for pints, there will be in a crate of the same dimensions twenty cells in rows of four crosswise and five lengthwise of the crate. Consequently the header must carry a separate setof nozzles for each size of hottle the crate contains-one set of twelve nozzles for use in connection with quart bottles, and another set of twenty nozzles for use in connection with pint bottles, either of which sets of nozzles may be called into action to the exclusion of the other according to the number and size of the bottles contained in thecrate. My invention consists of a novel, inexpensive, readily produced, and eficient nozzle-header construction for this purpose which will first be described in connection with the {M39011} panying drawings forming part of this specification, and will then be more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan of a header embodynig my invention in its preferred form.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same.

Fig.3 is a cross section on line 33 Fig. 2.

Fig. i, is a plan illustrative of the supply connections of the header.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation and Fig. 6 is a front end elevation of the header.

In the drawings the nozzles-proper are indicated diagrammatically.

A is the header having the form of a shallow rectangular box, and formed pref erably of a single casting as shown, to which unitary construction the arrangement of its partitioned interior lends itself. The top ofthe header has substantially the same area as the top of the crate; and the nozzles through which the fluid contents of the header are discharged, are divided into a plurality of sets, according to the different sizes of the bottles to be contained in the crates, which sets of nozzles are distributed over the area of the top of the header to register with the particular sized bottles in connection with which they are to be used. In this instance the crates are supposed to have either twelve or twenty bottle holding cells, for quarts and pints respectively,and the nozzles therefore are distributed over the area of the header-tops in two corresponding sets-twclve nozzles lettered a in the one set, and twenty nozzles lettered Z) in the other set, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. Thequart nozzles a are arranged equidistant from one another in three rows of four each lengthwise of the header and in four rows of three each crosswise of the header; and the pint nozzles are arranged equidistant from one another in four rows of five each lengthwise of the header and in five rows of four each crosswise of the headerall the nozzles of both sets being, of course, so positioned as to be properly centered with reference to the crated bottles for which they are respectively intended.

The interior of the header is correspondlngly divided by vertical partitions 79 into two separate and distinct sets of passage ways 0, (Z, communicating the one with the feed inlet C and the other with the feed inlet D. The quart nozzles a open into the passage ways 0, and the pint nozzles 6 open into the passage ways (Z. Of the partitions 79 within the header, the outer partition, starting from the front end wall of header at a distance from the adjoining side wall to include the inlet D for the pint passage-way (Z, thence extends continuously along that side wall,

' thence along the far end wall of the header,

on three sides-by the outer partitionp, and

on the fourth side by the end wall at the inlet end of the header. "Within the thusinclosed area and extending longitudinally thereof, but having no communication therewith, are two separate and distinct insular inclosures intended to serve as passage-ways for such of the pint nozzles b as are not in direct communication with the outer pint passage-way, formed each by a single continuous oblong-shaped partition with parallel sides and rounded ends, the thusformed inclosures being separated from one another and from the boundary walls of the area in which they are located by intervals freely communicating with'one another and forming thepassage-ways with which the quart nozzles communicate. Said inclosures are designed as passage-ways to directly communicate with such of the pint nozzles b as are not in direct communication with the outer U-shaped pint passageway d. ln'order to put these inclosures in communication with the pintinlet (l, ducts e are provided, which extend crosswise of the'header on the under face of the bottom. of header,- communicating at their outer ends with tlie legs of the outer'U-shaped pint passage E way (Z, through openingse and with the two innerseparately inciosed pint passage-ways through openings, e not only providing communication between 7 these inclosures and the pint feed inlet C but also providing and assuring the utmost freedom of circulation in all portions of the pint passageway system. Similar freedom of circulation is obtained also in the quart passage-way system. The passage ways 0 forv the fluid which is supplied to the quart nozzles a and which as shown in Fig. 2 occupy thatfportion of the interior of the header not; occupied by the pint passage ways (Z, are in free communication with one another and with their feed inlet G'as'i'ndicated in the figure referred to. In Fig. 2 the small circles lettered a and Z) respectively, and the horizontal and vertical lines lettered m at the intersections of which the circles are located, indicate diagrammatically the rows of nozzles a, b of the two sets, and the relations in which the individual members of the two sets stand to each other and to the partitions p.

The feed inlets may be controlled, as cas tomary in apparatus of this kind, either by a three-way cock common to both inlets, or

by a separate cock for each inlet, thelatter plan being represented in 'the drawing, wherein the inlets C D are provided each with its own cock.

Having describedmy improvement and the same into practical effect, I state in conclusion that I do not limit myself narrowly to the structural details hereinbefore shown and described, since manifestly the same can be varied to a considerable extent without departure from the spirit of the invention; but what I claim herein as new and of my own invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

A nozzle header for bottle washing machines, comprising a hollow shallow boxlike header body; partitions between the top and bottom thereof, dividing the interior of the header into two sets of passage-ways,

the one set comprising an outer continuous Ushaped passage-way on two sides and an intermediate end of the header, and, within the area not occupied by said outer passageway, :two additional passage-ways formed by oblong inclosures located therein at in'- terva'ls apart. from one another and from the walls which bound the area in which they are contained, and the other set comprising the passage-ways formed by intervals which separate said inclosures from one another and from the walls of the area in which they are contained; cross-ducts extending between, and opening at their ends into the two legs of the U-shaped outer passageway, and, at suitable points between their ends, into the two inclosures which WILLIAM W. BIRNSTOCK. 

